AWS Data Engineer

Work Timings: 2:30PM - 11:30PM IST

Primary Skills: Data Warehousing, Python, SQL, Star Schema, AWS

Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience with a BS/Masters
• Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3)
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, provide data insights, and advance effective product solutions
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and columnar databases (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, HBase, ClickHouse)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

A Typical Day:

• Design, build, and maintain robust and efficient data pipelines that collect, process, and store data from various sources, including user interactions, financial details, and external data feeds.
• Develop data models that enable the efficient analysis and manipulation of data for merchandising optimization. Ensure data quality, consistency, and accuracy.
• Build scalable data pipelines (SparkSQL & Scala) leveraging Airflow scheduler/executor framework
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Software Engineers, to define data requirements, and deliver data solutions that drive merchandising and sales improvements.
• Contribute to the broader Data Engineering community at Airbnb to influence tooling and standards to improve culture and productivity
• Improve code and data quality by leveraging and contributing to internal tools to automatically detect and mitigate issues.